Tala Ashe

Tala Ashe is an Iranian-American actress nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play in 2024 in the Pulitzer-Prize winning play "English." For five years, Tala was a series regular on "DC's Legends of Tomorrow" playing "Zari Tomaz," the first Muslim-American superhero on television. Her other TV work includes recurring roles on the upcoming "Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed" for Apple TV, "CIA" for CBS, "Girls on the Bus" for HBO, on "Smash" and "American Odyssey" both for NBC, as well as a host of guest starring roles. Tala has worked at numerous off-Broadway and regional theaters including: The Atlantic Theater, The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Lincoln Center Theater, Playco, Clubbed Thumb, The Old Globe and Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Ashe speaks fluent Farsi and received a BFA in Acting from Boston University, with training from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts and UCB theater.